The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Flag of truce — arrival of <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=lee,w.,h.,f.&n=1&type=person">Gen. W. H. F. Lee</a>.

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Flag of truce — arrival of Gen. W. H. F. Lee.

--A flag of truce boat arrived at City Point on Saturday afternoon, bringing up from Fortress Monroe six hundred and fifty-odd Confederate prisoners. Among the officers (about fifty in number) is Brig. Gen. W. H. F. Lee, captured by a raiding party, while sick at his residence in Louisa county, sometime last summer, and since that time held as hostage for Capts. Sawyer and Flynn, under sentence of death in retaliation for two Confederate officers who were hung in Kentucky by order of Gen. Burnside, charging them with recruiting for the Confederate service within the Yankee lines.

Among the Yankee prisoners who will leave this morning for City Point on parole, as an affect for the number of Confederate prisoners now awaiting transportation from City Point to this city, are Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine Liquor Law notoriety, and Capts. Flynn and Sawyer, the two officers who were under sentence of death as noticed above.

The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 14, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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